Seroprevalence of antibodies to Venezuelan equine encephalitis complex (subtypes IAB and VI) in humans from General Belgrano island, Formosa, Argentina

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 201-204

  Cámara, Alicia ^a   Díaz, Gladis ^a   Vega, Victor ^a   Basualdo, María ^b   Contigiani, Marta ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

^b Servicio Provincial de Chagas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Alphavirus; Argentina; Humans; Seroprevalence; Togaviridae; VEE

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROPREVALENCE; TOGAVIRUS; VIRUS TYPING; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS;

EID: 18344403855     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652003000400005     Document Type: Article

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